Does Xbox 360 Support DVD9, DVD10 and so on?

[hasanahmad]

DVD9 - 8.5 GB
DVD10 - 9.3 GB
DVD14 - 13.3 GB
DVD18 - 17.1 GB

Does Xbox 360 DVD Drive support these?

 

[Bohdy]

I haven't heard of any capability other than DVD9 metioned with regards to the Xbox 360.

Edit: Removed trite joke for fear of immediate bannination

 

[Wiseblood]

Yes, but DVD10,DVD14, and DVD18 are double sided and would need to be flipped.

 

[rusty]

Yes, but DVD10,DVD14, and DVD18 are double sided and would need to be flipped.

was just about to mention this...

I'm suprised no one ever tried to make a dvd drive that could read on both sides though... perhaps double sided discs were never expected to take off.

 

[Powderkeg]

was just about to mention this...

I'm suprised no one ever tried to make a dvd drive that could read on both sides though... perhaps double sided discs were never expected to take off.

It's hard to put a label on the reason why they didn't.

 

[rusty]

It's hard to put a label on the reason why they didn't.

well yes... but it is easy enough to have info printed on the centre (like the name of what it is) and then the rest of the info and art designs on the case. (i mean how many people buy a dvd because the disc itself looks cool?)

 

[Wiseblood]

I heard somewhere before that it's actually cheaper to make two single sided discs than it is to make a two sided disc.

 

[rusty]

you know, that's probably true...

from a conveinience side of things, the double sided disc would be better for the consumer (were a dual sided dvd reader available) but since when did the consumers needs matter eh

they tell us what we want and we blindly accept

 

[scooby_dooby]

of course it's cheaper, single sided is mass produced on a scale much much larger than double sided so production costs would be much lower.

the material costs of the discs are negligible,

 

[PG2G]

What on earth is DVD14, a double layer side and a single layer side?

 

[phat]

There have been quite a few double-sided DVDs in the early days of DVD. The widescreen version of the movie would be on one side and the pan&scan version on the other.

A double-sided drive would be double the thickness, double the cost, and half the reliability. Roughly.

 

[Guden Oden]

A double-sided drive would be double the thickness, double the cost, and half the reliability. Roughly.

Thickness isn't really a problem; laptop drives are very thin. Reliability halving? Nah, don't think so. You'd only need one spindle motor and one actuator servo even for a doublesided drive, that leaves a second laser/photodetector and focus mechanism, former of which is completely solid-state and hence extremely long-lived, and the latter is unlikely to be the moving part that breaks first.

Doublesided drives will never happen though simply because that they're both more expensive and redundant. There are no doublesided DVDs made these days, and even if they were they'd just have people turn the disc over by hand anyway.

 

[PARANOiA]

Double sided discs are awful. They get damaged far more easily than single sided discs. I would rather stand up, walk over to my machine, and change the disc over the high risk of ruining the disk for good. Especially with a AU$100 game.

 

[lip2lip]

all two sided dvds I have are for movies with widescreen and normal tv pan and scan versions.
this is the only time I have ever seen two sided dvds, and two sided reading in this application would be totally useless, not to mention double the cost.